Declining Circulations = Declining Quality of News?
Posted on May 29th, 2008
This past April, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported that U.S. newspaper circulations fell significantly again with the exception of the largest two big-league players, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, which were up just half a percentage point.
Although this news isn’t all too shocking considering newspaper circulation has been on a declining trend since the 1980s, the societal implications are significant. The obvious implication is that we’re becoming an increasingly mobile, web-based culture. But it’s not that we’re digesting news, information, and entertainment online that is earth-shattering.
